Alla vi som sett Gladiator II lade såklart märke till att filmen saknade samma vackra, episka och genomarbetade filmfoto som i mångt och mycket mycket definierade originalet, något som Ridley Scotts "cinematographer" John Mathieson kommenterat i ett nyinspelat avsnitt av podcasten The DocFix. Mathieson skräder inte orden direkt utan kallar istället Scott för lat och blasé, och att han inte längre riktigt bryr sig i ljussättning och repetitioner utan bara drämmer upp massor av kameror och filmar allt som sker, för att sen försöka "fixa" problemen i post-production.
Gladiator II cinematographer John Mathieson om Ridley Scotts brist på tålamod:
"He is quite impatient so he likes to get as much as he can at once. It's not very good for cinematography. He is really lazy.
It's the CG elements now of tidying-up, leaving things in shot, cameras in shot, microphones in shot, bits of set hanging down, shadows from booms. And they just said [on Gladiator II], 'Well, clean it up. Look at his older films and getting depth into things was very much part of lighting. You can't do that with a lot of cameras but he just wants to get it all done. Having lots of cameras I don't think has made the films any better...It's a bit rush, rush, rush. That's changed in him.
But that's the way he wants to do it and I don't like it and I don't think many people do, but people love his films and he's Ridley Scott and can do what he wants. People want to shoot multi cameras because they get lots of performances and they put lots of people in. But there's not the care. Now it is this thing of 'generally covering stuff' rather than me being the cook cooking you something wonderful in my kitchen downstairs. You just go to the supermarket and get one of those really big trolleys and you just put your arm on the shelf and just chuck all that stuff in and we'll sort it out later."
Vad tycker du om Ridley Scotts nuvarande regi och bildspråk i filmer som Gladiator II, The Last Duel samt Napoleon?